From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice Subject: Re: Is it necessary to download the native inputs while installing packages? Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 21:01:42 +0100 Message-ID: References: <81597a04-598a-e894-84af-759c1b5401ca@tobias.gr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34509) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ecGKm-0000LR-IG for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Jan 2018 14:58:49 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ecGKk-0005vu-K1 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Jan 2018 14:58:48 -0500 Received: from tobias.gr ([2001:470:cc92::1]:50970) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ecGKk-0005rl-8K for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Jan 2018 14:58:46 -0500 In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-GB List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: leo@famulari.name, guix-devel@gnu.org, ybbs.daans@hotmail.com Leo, Leo Famulari wrote on 18/01/18 at 20:56: > --fallback works when the substitute servers say they have something, > and then the substitution fails unexpectedly. For example, the server > may become overloaded and drop the connection. You are, of course, completely right & I must have been smoking drugs. 'specially since I was thinking that's probably what's happening on an unreliable connection. Thanks, T G-R